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The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

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f I most here refer to <strong>the</strong> critical dis * See <strong>the</strong><br />

Appendix pu' Ang;e]«.'<br />

BOOK (so to speak) special Angels in springs <strong>and</strong><br />

rivers; <strong>and</strong> we shall have HI presently to show,<br />

what were <strong>the</strong> popular notions about miraculous<br />

cures. K, however, <strong>the</strong> belief about Be<strong>the</strong>sda arose<br />

merely from <strong>the</strong> mistaken ideas about <strong>the</strong> cause <strong>of</strong><br />

this bubbling <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> water, <strong>the</strong> question would<br />

naturally suggest itself, whe<strong>the</strong>r any such cases as<br />

those described had ever really occurred, <strong>and</strong>, if<br />

not, how such a superstition could have continued.<br />

But that such healing might actually occur in <strong>the</strong><br />

circumstances, no one would be prepared to deny,<br />

who has read <strong>the</strong> accounts <strong>of</strong> pilgrimages to places<br />

<strong>of</strong> miraculous cure, or who considers <strong>the</strong> influence<br />

<strong>of</strong> a firm expectancy on <strong>the</strong> imagination, especially<br />

in diseases which have <strong>the</strong>ir origin in <strong>the</strong> nervous<br />

system. This view <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> matter is confirmed, <strong>and</strong><br />

Scripture still fur<strong>the</strong>r vindicated from even <strong>the</strong><br />

faintest appearance <strong>of</strong> endorsing <strong>the</strong> popular

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